Trump Escalates Dehumanizing Immigrant Rhetoric | EUROtoday

Former President Donald Trump instructed rallygoers in Tempe, Arizona, on Thursday that the nation is a “garbage can” for immigrants and refugees.

“They unleashed an army of migrant gangs waging a campaign of violence,” the previous actuality tv star mentioned on the rally, which came about in a state that’s 31.6% Latino.

With language enjoying on fears and biases, a tactic because the first day of his 2016 presidential marketing campaign, he escalated the dehumanizing rhetoric on Thursday within the battleground state of Arizona by calling the U.S. a “dumping ground” for refugees looking for asylum, notably these from poorer nations.

“We’re like a garbage can for the world,” he mentioned, including that that is the primary time he’s made these remarks.

“You got millions of people pouring in,” Trump added, even if unlawful border crossings have been declining. “And we are just not going to let it all happen.”

He additionally reiterated a number of marketing campaign themes, in keeping with NBC News, together with attacking the competence of his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, blaming Harris for the move of immigrants, committing to finish the designation of sanctuary cities and claiming he’ll add 10,000 extra Border Patrol brokers.

Trump’s remarks come after a CNN town-hall-style occasion on Wednesday by which Harris took intention at Trump’s 2016 promise to construct an enormous wall alongside the size of the border with Mexico to quell immigration.

“I think what he did and how he did it did not make much sense because he actually didn’t do much of anything,” Harris mentioned.